Pain for N.F.L. Partners; German Elections: DealBook Briefing

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Members of the Detroit Lions knelt and held hands during the national anthem before their home game on Sunday. A boycott of the league could also hurt advertising partners.CreditRey Del Rio/Getty Images

The likely outcome will be continued erosion in viewership, costing broadcasters hundreds of millions of dollars. That could impact renewal negotiations down the line, but even a divisive NFL remains a rare unifying force in an increasingly fragmented media landscape.

Others aren’t so sure that the political controversy would be bad for broadcasters. From Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw:

“There will be a lot of attention paid to ratings, and it will be fascinating to see if more people tune into the beginning of games just to see what happens,” said Brian Wieser, an analyst with Pivotal Research Group.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin backed Mr. Trump and argued that players should not assert free speech on the job, according to Politico’s Kevin Robillard: “They can do free speech on their own time.”

Calculating Fallout from the German Elections

Angela Merkel won her fourth term as chancellor. But the electoral showing of a far-right party, Alternative for Germany, dimmed her victory — and knocked down the euro’s value this morning.

The result is expected to lead to a tougher line on fiscal discipline in the eurozone, pushing up yields on government bonds in places like Spain and Italy, according to The Financial Times’s Michael Hunter.

“The impact is limited, as the German election results is more of a domestic political story for now rather than a regional European trend, and the euro will be more sensitive to any shift in direction from the European Central Bank policy,” said Viraj Patel, an FX strategist at ING Bank in London.

What to Look Out For

Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank, is to give a monetary policy update at the European Parliament on Monday.

Uber Grapples With Being Banned From London

Uber said on Monday that it was unclear why London’s travel authorities had decided not to renew its license. Reuters reports:

“Sitting down with TfL (Transport for London) representatives as soon as possible would be the most helpful thing to really understand their concerns to work out what they are,” Uber’s U.K. Head of Cities Fred Jones told BBC radio.

“It’s just not clear for us what their concerns might be.”

Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, took the moment to engage in some self-reflection, according to Recode’s Johana Bhuiyan:

“Irrespective of whether we did everything that is being said about us in London today (and to be clear, I don’t think we did), it really matters what people think of us, especially in a global business like ours, where actions in one part of the world can have serious consequences in another.”

Regulator Wants More Self-Reporting From Finance

In the Obama administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission was one of the toughest financial regulators around. Under President Trump, it’s adopting a new strategy.

The Times’s David Enrich obtained a preview of a forthcoming speech by the commission’s director of enforcement, James McDonald:

“We also recognize that no matter how much corporate leaders may want to foster compliance within the company, when they detect misconduct their decision whether to voluntarily report it often comes down to their perception of whether they’ll be treated fairly.”

But even as Mr. Gensler’s aggressive streak thrust the once-backwater agency into the front lines of reform, it also maddened colleagues and complicated his legacy. And now that his tenure is ending on Friday, the agency has reached an inflection point, prompting Wall Street to hope for a friendlier regulator.

Huddled in a private room on the sidelines of a meeting of world leaders in Lima, Peru, two months before Trump’s inauguration, Obama made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to take the threat of fake news and political disinformation seriously. Unless Facebook and the government did more to address the threat, Obama warned, it would only get worse in the next presidential race.

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The Men in Tech Who Think Gender Equality Has Gone Too Far

James Altizer, an engineer at the chip maker Nvidia who leads a group called Bay Area Fathers’ Rights, to The Times’s Nellie Bowles:

“It’s a witch hunt,” he said in a phone interview, contending men are being fired by “dangerous” human resources departments. “I’m sitting in a soundproof booth right now because I’m afraid someone will hear me. When you’re discussing gender issues, it’s almost religious, the response. It’s almost zealotry.”